Our SEO tools prompts 200+ errors on a clients website with the error message
No self-referencing hreflang
We tried to enable and disable the SEO and multi language settings of the theme, but we are facing a dead end.
Can you help with a fix?
THX
Bernhard
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Please open your website in Firefox html mode (CTRL+U) and check html errors you got. Please fix them first and all should be fine.
Thank you very much for getting back.
Your patience and understanding is much appreciated.
Let me try to clarify this issue.
After taking a closer look at your problem, I tried recrawling your domain on our side. Please, note that 206 issues got triggered correctly as hreflang implementation on pages mentioned in the report can be considered incorrect. According to our report, your pages have no self-referencing hreflang, which you can see on screenshots here and here. On Page Source screenshot you can see that link in hreflang is not self-referencing. In case you indeed wanted the index page to get all the link juice from mentioned pages, then I would kindly recommend to hide the issue from Site Audit as irrelevant. To avoid any conflicts, we recommend that you review your hreflang attributes within your page's source code and fix issues like conflicting hreflang and rel=canonical URLs or no self-referencing hreflang URLs.
Also, I would kindly recommend checking our Google's recommendations on hreflang implementation.
Kind regards,
Gleb Kutsyy
This is correct, but this is a Wordpress core function. It generates those links in the header, and we do not interfere in it. We only have basic SEO options in our theme. Those hreflangs you talk about would need additional coding which does not fall under our support capabilities.
thanks